John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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"If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's."	America, Desires, Life
"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."	Art, Freedom, Liberty
"If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion."	Life, Religion
"If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help made the world safe for diversity."	Help
"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it."	Anger, Freedom, History
"Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake."	Miscellaneous
"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree."	Education, School, Teaching
"Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas."	Miscellaneous
"Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other."	Leadership, Learning
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."	Freedom, Friends, Hope
"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!"	Age, America, Friends
"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."	Fear
"Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions."	Destiny, Fate, Generosity
"Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors."	Books, Writing
"Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms."	Miscellaneous
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."	Happiness, Joy, Men
"Modern cynics and skeptics ... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing."	Age, Honesty, Truth
"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now." (On steel industry executives who increased prices)"	Age, Lies, Men
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."	Imagination, Men
"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."	Destiny, Fate, Men
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Anger	Art	Beauty
Books	Change	Character
Choice	Communism	Courage
Creativity	Death	Desires
Destiny	Determination	Difficulty
Doubt	Duty	Education
Effort	Excellence	Failure
Faith	Fate	Fear
Forgiveness	Freedom	Friends
Generosity	Goals	Greatness
Guns	Happiness	Help
History	Honesty	Hope
Humor	Imagination	Intelligence
Intentions	Joy	Justice
Knowledge	Laughter	Law
Leadership	Learning	Liberty
Lies	Life	Loyalty
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Opportunity	Peace	Persistence
Poetry	Power	Pride
Reading	Religion	Responsibility
School	Sin	Success
Talent	Teaching	Time
Truth	Violence	Wants
War	Wisdom	Wishing
Women	Writing